Saint Mary's College Outcomes: $69K Median Earnings (2026)

How much do Saint Mary's College graduates earn?

The reported median is $69,406 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $55,915 as its benchmark; the difference is $13,491 per year.

Saint Mary's College presents an earnings picture that is stronger than its peer comparison. Azimuth places its return in the 78th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $69,406 four years after completion, placing earnings in the 75th percentile. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915; the college's median is $13,491 above it.

The return percentile and peer comparison point in the same favorable direction.

The modeled earnings range at Saint Mary's College is broad across its program mix. The downside earnings scenario is $50,058 and the upside scenario is $83,511; these are scenarios rather than observed groups of graduates.

Program medians also vary four years after completion: Accounting posts $98,107, Nursing posts $80,396, and Political Science posts $74,623. These field-level medians sit across a wide span of earnings.

Earnings four years after completion need to be read alongside further study. An estimated 32.6% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Because the earnings measure covers completers who are working and not enrolled, this estimate gives context to the reported earnings.

How could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $50,058
Median · reported: $69,406
Higher estimate: $83,511

Downside shows a lower-earning scenario based on the college’s mix of programs; upside shows a higher-earning scenario. Typical is the school’s reported median four years after completion. These are planning scenarios, not a forecast of your salary or percentiles of individual graduates.

Why the downside matters explores the risk hidden by medians, using older ten-year entrant data. Read about the move to four-year earnings.

Do Saint Mary's College graduates earn more than expected?

Azimuth models what we would expect graduates to earn based on who the college enrolls, how selective it is and its local economy. The difference between that expectation and reported earnings is what Azimuth calls value added.

That comparison is not reported for Saint Mary's College. Unlike a peer comparison, it adjusts for who enrolls.

The breakdown separates the contribution attributed to observed factors from the remaining difference. Neither component establishes how much attending Saint Mary's College caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Saint Mary's College report the highest earnings?

At Saint Mary's College, the program picture spans higher- and more moderate-earning fields four years after completion. Accounting sits at the higher end, with median earnings of $98,107 and 13 degrees awarded.

Nursing also posts median earnings of $80,396 across 45 degrees awarded. Business Administration and Management had median earnings of $73,449 and 29 degrees awarded, placing it between those higher figures and the more moderate result for Teacher Education, at $51,665 with 25 degrees awarded.

These results show that the earnings picture differs materially by field, even among programs with substantial numbers of degrees awarded.

Program choice matters at Saint Mary's College because the largest fields show a broad range of earnings four years after completion. Among those fields, Nursing awarded 45 degrees and had median earnings of $80,396; Psychology awarded 30 degrees and had median earnings of $58,218; Business Administration and Management awarded 29 degrees and had median earnings of $73,449; Teacher Education awarded 25 degrees and had median earnings of $51,665; and Communication and Media Studies awarded 20 degrees and had median earnings of $66,335.

The range across these larger fields makes the intended field an important part of the earnings picture.

Further analysis

Field choice shapes the modeled range at the college: scenarios grounded in the program mix put downside earnings at $50,058, typical earnings at $69,406, and upside earnings at $83,511, all four years after completion. At the high end, Accounting reaches $98,107; among the largest programs, Teacher Education stands at $51,665. The spread shows variation by field rather than separate observed groups.

Graduate earnings at Saint Mary's College sit toward the higher end of nonprofit four-year institutions. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $69,406 four years after completion.

Azimuth places that measure in the 75th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 387 completers. The typical earnings scenario matches the reported median, while the downside scenario is $50,058 and the upside scenario is $83,511.

These are earnings scenarios based on the program mix, not observed groups of graduates. An estimated 32.6% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. The scenario range shows that earnings differ across fields.

Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: methodology.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

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